Spy Kids - Covert ActionFormed in 1990, Spy Kids drew influences from British 2 Tone, Jamaican ska, and fellow SoCal acts Donkey Show, Let's Go Bowling & Hepcat. The band fizzled in 1991 as members joined Flogging Molly, Unwritten Law, Buck O Nine, Unsteady & Pivit. Thirty years later the band triumphantly entered the studio recording 5 songs from it's initial incarnation, plus a couple of covers and a brand new tune.

and vocal fx

Also included: the breathtaking Christmas classics of the Mills Brothers and Johnny Mercer

" says Chamayou

Andrew Zolinsky - This Was Written By Hand

Like the album title suggests

Manfred Mann's Earth Band were laying down their next album "Solar Fire" - works-in-progress versions of "Father Of Day

The cycle reaches it's climax with the Ninth

Coming (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session) D2

San and Summer Breeze festivals as well as an extensive European tour with Hypocrisy and Kataklysm

and Joe Farnsworth the pair covers a smart mix of standards from the bossa strains of "Black Orpheus" to the soulful Ammons classic "Hittin the Jug

to the accompaniment of a roar akin to an express train

" are as close to classic songwriting as the trio comes